Pantech was looking good for expansion into the US back in 2013 with the Discover. Josh Miller/CNET South Korea’s number three handset maker, Pantech, has had a very rough year that will now culminate in its full sale, if it can find a buyer. In February, Pantech filed for its second debt restructuring program. In …
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Matt Elliott/CNET If your brainstorming sessions produce a wall scattered with Post-it notes, then the Post-it Plus app can help you scoop up those notes, make some sense of them, and share them with your meeting’s participants. A year ago, I wrote about a new Post-it Note feature added to Evernote’s iOS app that scanned your Post-it Notes and could …
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Apple Store workers cheer as the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus go on sale in Istanbul, Turkey. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus launch is spreading across the globe, with Apple putting its newest smartphones on sale in more than 20 new countries starting today. The 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and its bigger brother the 5.5-inch iPhone …
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The bent aluminium body of the iPhone 6. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET Apple is popular, but the flip side of that popularity is that it also invites increased scrutiny. That general scrutiny has now been translated into a full-on fuss over a very specific issue: new iPhones with a bend. Some users of the phablet-size iPhone 6 Plus are reporting …
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Sorry, but it can’t tell your fortune. Yantouch Congrats to Bryan A. of Bloomington, Ill., for winning a Tablo over-the-air DVR from Nuvyyo in last week’s giveaway. This week’s winner gets a Bluetooth speaker…that’s also a light show. The Diamond+ is available in black and white. You’ll be getting the black version. Yantouch The Yantouch Diamond+ is a diamond-shaped speaker …
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CNET Hello there, dear reader. Welcome to the final installment of this series of soul-searching articles in which I attempt to discern which of my two favorite phablets is superior. In one hand, my trusty Galaxy Note 3 . I chose this phone to test because it’s my personal phone, which I’ve been using since the beginning of the year. …
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Samsung/Twitter/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Samsung is getting some mileage out of Apple’s “Bendgate” issue to promote one of its own intentionally curved smartphones. A tweet posted by Samsung Mobile early Thursday displayed a photo of the company’s Galaxy Note Edge with the tagline “Curved. Not bent” followed by the hashtag #GALAXYNoteEdge. Slated to reach US consumers sometime later this year, …
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Nokia will continue to provide its Here mapping platform to Windows Phone, but it will be developing for other mobile OSes as well. As Microsoft and Nokia continue to go their separate ways, there remains confusion among some about the relationship between the two. Saying “it’s complicated” is a big understatement. A couple of stories this week made it seem …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Confession time: I am terrible at Twitter. I apologize to anyone who has attempted to contact me via a tweet. I’m slightly less terrible at Facebook, where I do check in regularly and post occasionally. With Twitter, however, I feel like I always arrive in the middle of a conversation and rarely summon the effort required to comb …
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Vodafone As government and industry debate the practicalities of mandatory data retention in Australia, Vodafone has revealed it is already working on a scheme to match individual internet users to the sites they visit. Speaking at a Senate Committee review on the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, Vodafone’s general manager of industry strategy and public policy, Matthew Lobb, said that …
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Apple can’t nail it every time. Apple headquarters are located at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, Calif. James Martin/CNET Over the years, the Apple brand has become almost synonymous with “quality.” CEO Tim Cook as recently as this month stressed the care that Apple puts into building new products. That’s partly why the company has not rushed to release the …
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It has not been an easy week for Apple or iOS 8. CNET One day after a bungled iOS update disrupted key features on thousands of iPhones, Apple on Thursday issued a follow-on version of the software to set things right. The newest update, iOS 8.0.2, is available immediately. The bruise to Apple’s public image — also dinged in the …
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The bent aluminum body of an iPhone 6 Plus. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET Apple has bumped into a new controversy after complaints from iPhone 6 Plus owners that their phones bend, especially after being kept in a pocket for hours on end. But will Apple replace such a bent phone, or is the customer stuck with it? A reporter from …
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Verizon schedules the Moto X for a September 26 arrival. Josh Miller/CNET Verizon on Thursday announced it will soon offer the second-gen Moto X smartphone as part of its roster. Soon as in tomorrow, soon. Related Links Yup, Moto X in line for Google’s Android L update Motorola Moto X (2014) review The many different stylings of the new Moto …
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It’s Sony’s turn to get into the mix. The invite to Sony’s October 9 event. The Xperia Z3 smartphone could be the star. Sony The Japanese consumer-electronics giant plans to hold an event on October 9 in New York. The invitation was sent out by Sony’s mobile division, suggesting that the Xperia Z3 smartphone, which was unveiled at the IFA …
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